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Assisting local and national governments to develop a pipeline of feasible, bankable projects and strengthen regional networks.

Mexico City's bike share system, Ecobici. Photo by mariordo59/Flickr.

Transport accounts for 35 percent of total CO2 emissions in Latin America and the Caribbean. This is more any other energy sub-sector—and emissions have been steadily increasing since the 1970s. Moving the region towards low carbon technologies will have important benefits, both at a global and a local scale.

A three-year project, supported by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF), works hand-in-hand with governments in the region to identify and break down barriers for implementing low carbon transport technologies. The project takes a holistic approach to technology, focusing not only on the hardware, but on enabling factors like institutional capacity.

The project’s strategy includes three parts:

Close the region’s expertise gap by improving access to high quality and easy-to-understand knowledge products about low carbon technology implementation.